Chicken Tikka Pilau

    To Marinate Chicken:
  1. Chicken 1 & 1/2 kg (cut in 8 or 12 pieces)
  2. Thick greek yogurt 1 cup
  3. Yellow food colour 1/4 tsp
  4. Cumin seeds 1 & 1/2 tbsp (dry roasted and crushed)
  5. Salt 1 tsp (heaped)
  6. Lemon juice 8 tbsp
  7. Red chilli powder 1 tsp (slightly heaped)
  8. Ginger & garlic paste 2 tbsp
  9. Chat masala powder 1 tsp
  10. Coal to smoke the chicken
  11. Oil 4 tbsp
    12. For Pilau:
  12. Pice 1 kg (washed & soaked 20 minutes)
  13. Onions 1 large (sliced)
  14. Cloves 8
  15. Chinese salt 1 tbsp
  16. Black pepper corns 20
  17. Green cardamom 6
  18. Black cardamom 3
  19. Green chilli 5 (slice in two)
  20. Cumin seeds 1 tbsp
  21. Cinnamon stick 2 pieces
  22. Ginger & garlic paste 2 tbsp
  23. Chicken stock cube 1 to 2 (mix with 1/2 cup hot water)
  24. Salt 1 tbsp
  25. Oil 1 cup

Recipe

  1. Marinate chicken food colour, lemon juice, cumin, salt, red chilli, chaat masala, ginger & garlic paste, yogurt mix well  cover and leave it for half to 1 hour.
  2. For Pilau: heat oil add onion, cloves, black pepper corns, cinnamon stick, black cardamom, green cardamom, cumin  seeds, green chilli, ginger & garlic paste and fry till dark golden on high flame.
  3. Then add the soaked rice, water 9 cups, chicken cube mixed with water, salt, Chinese salt, mix cover and cook on  high flame till the water dries and the rice is cooked.
  4. Now cover the lid with a tea towel and simmer the rice on low flame for 10 minutes. after 10 minutes close the flame.
  5. For Chicken Tikka: heat oil add the marinated chicken, wait for a boil on high flame, then cover and cook on low to  medium flame till the chicken is cooked and oil comes on surf.
  6. Heat the coal.
  7. Place a piece of foil, add the hot coal, add little oil on the coal, cover till the smoke settles.
  8. Place the pilau in a dish, top it with the chicken, garnish it with the onion rings, green chilli.
  9. Serve hot with any raita.